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On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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<SNIP> |
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> IMO this is a fdisk "bug". A feature should be added so that it tries to |
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> align optimally in most circumstances. RAID controllers should not be trying |
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> to do anything clever to accommodate potential misalignment unless it is |
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> really cheap to do so. |
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> Stroller. |
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We think alike. I personally wouldn't call it a bug because drives |
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with 4K physical sectors are very new, but adding a feature to align |
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things better is dead on the right thing to do. It's silly to expect |
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every Linux user installing binary distros to have to learn this stuff |
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to get good performance. |
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- Mark |
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